Have Nerds Betrayed the Left? — Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science. — Shares — A couple of weeks ago, Tom Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, sympathetically interviewed academic-activist Cornel West, both of whom agreed that Barack Obama has betrayed the left.

Rand Paul: As world changes, ‘you change’ — Sen. Rand Paul on Monday pushed back against heightened criticism that he has flip-flopped on foreign policy issues, saying he has stood firmly against the Obama administration's policies in Syria. — Appearing on CBS “This Morning,” …

Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham — LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question. Now in his late 50s, he had arrived from Pakistan three decades earlier. After a lifetime of hard work, he could not understand …

Senate has a secret book of rules — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.

POLITICO promotes two amid expansion in Europe, U.S. — POLITICO announced on Tuesday they will be expanding to other states and announced that Danielle Jones and Miki King have been named Executive Vice President for Expansion and Executive Vice President for Operations, respectively.

Senate Update: Alaska, A Frontier For Bad Polling — The Senate race in Alaska is as important as any in the country. As we've described previously, Republicans can win a Senate majority by winning the race there along with those in five other deeply red states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.